{"id":311,"date":"2021-05-08T21:46:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valleau.art\/blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2021-05-08T21:46:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T21:46:58","slug":"windows-8-the-start-menu-and-parallels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/windows-8-the-start-menu-and-parallels\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8, the Start Menu and Parallels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find \u00a0the W8 interface inconvenient. Like many, I long for the start menu.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>(Wow! &#8220;longing&#8221; for _anything_ Windows ! \u00a0What have I come to? \u00a0)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>OK&#8230; it&#8217;s probably temporary, until I adjust, but at least the start menu was a one-stop-shop for launching software and getting some actual work done.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Someone figured out that lots of people were going to miss the old start menu, and came up with a $5 solution.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>I bought it, and it seems to work just fine in Parallels.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Here it is:<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>http:\/\/www.stardock.com\/products\/start8\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find \u00a0the W8 interface inconvenient. Like many, I long for the start menu. \u00a0(Wow! &#8220;longing&#8221; for _anything_ Windows ! \u00a0What have I come to? \u00a0)\u00a0OK&#8230; it&#8217;s probably temporary, until I adjust, but at least the start menu was a one-stop-shop for launching software and getting some actual work done.\u00a0Someone figured out that lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}